A Perfect Circle - Weak and Powerless Lyrics Meaning

Publish date: 2024-05-18
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Nov 2nd 2020 !⃝

The lyrics had an odd meaning to me

I think weak and powerless is about the internal conflict Maynard had trying to confront his drug addict girlfriend that was mentioned in the song blue

>> "Tilling my own grave to keep me level"
To till is to prepare soil so he was preparing the grave for the death of the relationship

>>"Jam another dragon down a hole"
chasing the dragon is a way of doing heroin which is was his girlfriends was on

>>"Digging to the rhythm and the echo of the solitary siren"
A siren in greek mythology was a creature who would sing a song to convince lost sailors to come to them ultimately killing the sailors, the meaning of this line is, the siren in his head (conscience) is telling him it'd be better not to confront her about the problem as he's digging the grave of the relationship

>>"One that pushes me along and leaves me so desperate and ravenous"
The siren is telling him not to confront her about what's happening and he desperate to give in but he knows he's has to face reality

>>"so weak and powerless over you"
He can't control his inner conflict

>> "someone feed the monkey while I dig in search of china"
Distract the siren while I look for way to address the problem

>> "White as dracula as I approach the bottom"
Scared as I approach the girl

>>"Little angel go away, Come again some other day, The devil has my ear today, I'll never hear a word you say"
It's about conscience but instead of the angel (good) he took the devil (bad) so instead of confronting her and trying to get her to stop, he chickens out of it

>>"He promised I would find a little solace And some peace of mind Whatever, just as long as I don't feel so desperate and ravenous"
Maynard followed the bad side of his conscience to make him feel better for the time being but his girlfriend later ended up overdosing and he realises this was a mistake

MMM yes just a thought though

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